Electric-lamp socket.



G. W. ,GOQDRIDGE.

ELECTRIC LAMP SOCKET.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 14, 1916.

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GILBERT V 7. GOQFJRIBGE, 81* BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNDR TO THE BRYANT ELECTRIC CUMPANY, OE BRZDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION 6F 601W NECTIG'U ELEGTRIC-LAMP SOCKET.

i .23 i. fireeificetion of Letters Patent Patented Treh. It, a Application filed September It, 1916. Serial No. 120,156. .ZIo (Miro/1022' imag concern." of a'screw 28 piercing the lower button be it known that. I, Gnannrr W. Goonand taking into a tapped hole in the base 23' moon, a. citizen of the United States of of the frame. After repeated actuation of America, and residing at Bridgeport, in the the switch mechanism there is a tendency of 5 county of .Fairfield and State of Connectithe frame "to work loose from the screw.

cut, lave invented a certain new and Im- While there is no danger iniiny previous proved Electric-Lamp Socket, of which the construction, that the switch frame will following is a specification. work loose to an extent such that the mecha- My invention relates to electric lamp nism will become deranged, a feeling of in 0 sockets and particularly to the interior consecurity is produced which renders the 5 the switch frame is held rigidly in position formed the buttons '14 and 15 with respect 2o bodied in one form;

\ention being to provide an improved contron provides means to overcome this undestruction of the insulatmg body with relasirable'featurea tion to the switch mechanism and by WilICll For the "purpose mentioned, I have struction of the socket, the object of my insocket objectionable. The present invenin said body. to the frame that the latter is now braced Referring to the accompanying drawings, against the buttons at several points, each of Figure l is a vertical section through a which serves to maintain the frame rigid lamp socket in which my invention is emand to take up the various strains to which the frame is subjected on the operation of 1g. 2 IS an inverted plan of one of the the switch mechanism. As shown in the acinsulating buttons which form the body of conipanying drawings there are three points the socket; of engagement. One of these is a rib 29 Fig. 3 is a plan of the second insulating formed in the button 15 in line with the hole 5 button; nd '30 through which the securing screw Fig. 4 is a section on the lines 4 4:, Fig. 3. passes and taking into a channel 31 formed The present invention relates particularly in the base 23 of the frame at a correspondto the type of socket shown in my co-pending point. A second point of engagement ing application Serial No. 763,604, and is is afforded by a shoulder 82 formed on the designed to afford a more secure mounting upper button Li and projecting down into of the switch frame on the insulating body .the switch chamber 18 and into engagement to prevent any tendency of the latter to with the ends of the extended arms 33 on swivel or become loose by reason of rethe sides of the switch frame which form peated actuation of the switch mechanism. the stops limiting the upward throw of the The socket comprises the usual metallic casoscillating switch piece The third point ing having a cap 10 and shell 11 with inof engagement is afforded by a boss 3% pro sulating lining 12 and thumb piece 13 pro jecting upward into the switch chamber jccting through the casing to operate the from the lower button 15 and lying between switch mechanism contained therein. A the side wings 26 and 27 of the frame. The

0 pair of insulating buttons it and 15, norboss 3% is spaced from he sides of the chain- I molly secured together by bolts passing her 18 substantially the thickness of the through holes 16 and 17, arerecessed on metal of the frame so that the wings 26 and their meeting faces to afford a switch chain- 2? lie snuglytin the channels afforded bcher 18 within which the switch mechanism tween the opposite sides of the boss 3 and 45 is mounted. As in my previous construe the body of the lower button 15. it also tio11, the switch terminals 19 and 20 are can bears against end standard 25. too ried by-the lowerbutton 15 and. the circuit is The engagement of the trame in this mancompleted between the same by the oscillatnor by the buttons at the three points mening switch piece 21. The switch mechanism tioned affords a very rigid bracing and is mounted upon a frame 22 having a base there is no possibility whatever of the frame 23 with end standards 24: and 25 and side working loose under-any operating condi- I wings 26 and 27 between which the operat .tions.

ing parts are arranged. The switch frame Various other ways of bracing the frame is secured to the lower button 15 by means will readily occur to those skilled in the art and I do not limit myself to the precise con struction shown, which may be variously modified without departing from what I claim as my invention.

I claim as my invention 1. An electric lamp socket having an in rights to prevent relativemovement of the frame on the body.

3. An electric lamp socket having an insulating body, a switch frame mount thereon and having an end upright and a pair of side uprights extending beyond said end upright, in combination with a boss on said body bearing against said end upright and lying between said extended side up rights, for the purpose described.

4. An electric lamp socket having a chambered insulating body, a switch frame having a base mounted on the bottom of said chamber, side uprights on said base and extending beyond the end of the latter, and a ledge inthe top of said chamber against Copies of this patent may be obtained for a boss on said five cents each, by addressing the beyond said end upright and a boss en gaged between said side uprights beyond said end upright.

6. An electric lamp socket having a chambered insulating body, a switch frame having a base and means engaging said base for securing the frame in the chamber of said insulating body, end and side uprights on said frame and means engaging said end and side uprights to brace the frame in said chamber.

7. An electric lamp socket having a cham= bered insulating body, a switch frame having a base and means engaging said base for securing the frame in the chamber of said insulating body, end and side uprights on said frame and means engaging said base and said end and side uprights to brace the frame in said chamber.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GILBERT W. ooonnmon.

Witnesses:

H. M. WIOHERT, H. U. BADEAU.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

